StoryboardLesson 8

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Lesson Goals

Understand why storyboards are used in planning comic books

Be able to create a storyboard suitable for your own comic book

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

What is a storyboard?Think about the different parts…

Storyboards

Used as a way of planning what you are going to make before you actually have to make it.

Storyboards can allow you to see how a storyline will flow through a comic strip.

They can also let you place characters and dialogue in the panels so you don’t hide any deatails.

Understand use of storyboardsCreate an original storyboard

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

Terminology

Panel – These are the boxes that frame the action for each scene in your comic book.

Spread - Sometimes panels may overlap or even span across two or more pages as a spread.

Splash – Often the opening scene of a comic will take up a full page or half a page as a splash.

Understand use of storyboardsCreate an original storyboard

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

Terminology

Speech Bubble – Used to show dialogue between characters in the comic strip. Different styles used depending on the way in which the dialogue would be delivered.

Caption – Narrative for the comic strip that doesn’t belong to the dialogue but is needed to explain the storyline.

Understand use of storyboardsCreate an original storyboard

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

Terminology

Symbolia – Elements such as a light bulbs being used to indicate an idea, dotted lines for evil looks, dust clouds hanging behind an object, star bursts to indicate dizziness.

Motion Lines – Used to indicate something has moved. Lines can be straight or curved and will indicate the direction of travel.

Understand use of storyboardsCreate an original storyboard

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

Terminology

Sound Effects – One of the most common standards of comic book design with sounds of the comic strip written in uppercase, often 3d style text. Sometimes they may be drawn with a jagged edge or cloud effect around to indicate the nature of the sound.

Understand use of storyboardsCreate an original storyboard

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

Your Task

Create a original storyboard for the comic book showing:

Panel layoutCharacter placementDialogueHeadings used

Make sure that your storyline, script and storyboard all work together with the aim of creating an original comic book.

Understand use of storyboardsCreate an original storyboard

#storyboard #panel#comicbook

Key WordsStoryboard

Panel

A sequence of drawings to visually plan the final comic book

The box on a comic book in which the scene will be drawn